Community Futures Collective (CFC) was founded in 2002 to provide fiscal sponsorship, infrastructure development and support for advocacy and service organizations.

CFC encourages funding agencies and contributors to take risks in funding new projects and programs and takes great pride in sponsoring projects committed to positive social change and a more equitable distribution of wealth, resources and power.

Funders and contributors of CFC projects and programs are investing in the future of communities by supporting projects that seek out the root causes of social problems and pose new solutions.

Yuri Kochiyama Archives Project

Life-long activist Yuri Kochiyama passed away peacefully in her sleep in Berkeley, California on the morning of Sunday, June 1 at the age of 93. Over a span of more than 50 years, Yuri worked tirelessly for social and political change through her activism in support of social justice and civil and human rights movements.

The Kochiyama family is in the process of assessing and cataloging over 180 boxes of archival materials in preparation for submission of the collection to a repository (library or university in New York City or the Bay Area).

The YKAP project is currently seeking funds to cover some of the expenses associated with this project (including costs of storage, transportation and compensation of research assistants to work with the family in organizing, cataloging, assessing and scanning materials) both in Oakland, California and New York City.

*Checks can be made payable to: Community Futures Collective (Memo – “YKAP” or “Yuri”)

Free the Angola 3

The National Coalition to Free the Angola 3 has been working
together since 1998 specifically to raise consciousness
about the case of the Angola 3, prisoners who have been held in solitary
confinement in Angola prison for 41 years, as well as general
information about prison issues in Louisiana and nationally.

The Coalition raises funds to support work on issues dealing with the
Angola 3 case and long-term solitary. Robert King Wilkerson, the freed
member of the Angola 3, travels the world speaking about his comrades
in Angola and making Candy to raise funds for the effort.

The Real Cost of Prisons Project

Lois Ahrens, the founder and director of the RCPP has been fortunate to have built an extensive network with prisoners which has grown into working relationships informing and transforming her work. Her correspondence and visits with prisoners has meant a greater focus on the realities of extremely long sentences and the harsh and damaging conditions of confinement faced by all prisoners in the U.S. In Massachusetts, the RCPP's recent work includes stopping the degrading Department of Corrections policy of dogs sniffing all visitors (including young children) while they wait for hours to see family and friends, state-wide organizing against the "three strikes" law, and working to stop new prison and jail building. The RCPP is committed to bringing the ideas and analysis of prisoners and formerly incarcerated men and women into our organizing to more authentically challenge and change the destructive beliefs and costly systems that drive mass criminalization.

The Real Cost of Prisons Project is a national organization, which began 2000. The RCPP created workshops, a website visited by 1,500 people a day which includes sections of writing and comix by prisoners and three comic books. 135,000 free comic books have been sent to organizers, schools and prisoners throughout the country. The comic books are anthologized into the book, The Real Cost of Prisons Comix, published by PM Press. In 2008, the book won the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.